Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-09-03
KANSAS NEWS

Ellsworth is boring for natural gas,
oil or coal.
Newton will have a free carrier de-
livery after Sept. IA.
Osborne will build q large brick
school building at once.
A contract for e $4,000 school house
at Ness City has been let.
Burglars have been raiding Arkansas
City during the past week.
The Bavanna CHieftain thinks that Ra-
wanna should be incorporated.
Ellsworth Reporter: There are sever
al fine buildings now going mp il this
city.
The city council at Newton have re-
fused TO license gambling games Of any
kind.
A new hotel, frEU class in all its APP
pointments, has just been opened at
Usage City.
The corner stone Of an SIS, 600 Mason
ic Temple was laid at Ellsworth on the
9TH inst.
The Topeka board of education has
abolished all charges for high school in
stsuction.
Conductor is the name Of a new town
In southwestern Kansas. Its newspaper
is the Punch.
Horse thieves have been at work in
Montgomery County. Several horses
have been stolen.
j. R. Vest is in jail at Garden City
charged with stealing a claim house
near Fargo Springs.
Fort Scott's wooden mills are running
to their full capacity, manufacturing
supplies for the fall trade.
Gray county has a population OF s.
600 people, and there are $4,000 acres Of
land under cultivation.
Twenty street electric lights have been
turned on at Stockton, Kan, and a gen
eral celebration took place.
Girard Press: The board of county
commissioners have let the contract for
building six county bridges.
The silk station at Peabody is report
ed to have taken 1900 pounds of CO.
eoOns since opening last spring.
The Rock Island route, @. K n. R.
R., has granted a one cent a mile rate
to the G.. A. r. reunion at st. Louis.
Wichita is to have another soap facto-
~ with capital stock of $4,000, and
capacity of $500 worth of goods daily.
A seven thousand dollar school build
ing is TO be erected at Horton, the build
ing to be ready for occupancy by Octo-
Der Ist
The Kansas Preserving Works OF To
peka put up seveHty-fve gallons of cat
sup per day. Seventy-fve bushels of.
apples are dried daily.
The gas well company at Wichita, ar
ter boring 1000 feet and not finding gas,
have determined to sink a new well IN
another part Of the city.
Ellsworth Reporter: This is a good
time for parties in the dried up east to
come to Kansas, purchase lands, and get
ready for farming next year
The Arkansas City Republican
TTareyer says that nearly two hundred
families are living in tents In that city for
want of better accommodation.
The Topeka canning company en-
plOys one hundred persons in canning
tomatoes. Nine thousand six hundred
cans a day is the average product.
The Hutchinson Meas is authority for
the statement that there are over a hun
dred two and three-stOry brick and stone
blocks il process Of erection In that city.
The Soldiers Orphans Home of Kan
sas, at AtchisOn, is open for the recep-
ton of children. Blank applications
may be had by addressing Col John
PiersUn, Atcnison.
The Arkansas City Roller mills and
the Canal Roller mills have merged their
several properties into a Joint stock com
pany to be known as the Arkansas City
Roller Mills company.
Stockton Ne1gs: D. B. Wood, Of Lo-
gan township, received notice this week
that he had been allowed q pension of
1,O1O and placed on the pension roll at
six dollars per month.
An Argentine company has under
taken to make the Kansas river naViga-
bic for sixteen miles from its mouth.
The company proposes dredging the
river and using the sand,
Abilene Gazette: +. G. Burnett, one
Of the grading gang working five miles
north of Harrington, was arrested by
Sheriff Miller, charged with passing a
twenty dollar gold piece on a Harrington
merchant, and placed IN jail.
The Mound City manufacturing com
pany, with a capital stock Of 100000,
has been organized. The company in
tend to put IN plant at once for the
purpose of manufacturing a machine for
painting DRrbed wire fences which is said
to be very ingenious and valuable.
The Edmond Times says it seems
/ strange that AIilIbrook was so horribly
torn to pieces by the tornado Thursday
evening, while Hill City, only mile and
a half away, and on the high prairie, es-
capped with hut very little damage.
There viii be an old settlers picnic IL
Cove City on Saturday, September TO-
/ Officers will be elected and steps taken
TO organize a permanent association for
the purpose Of holding these reunions
/ each year.
Osborne County Farmer: Through
/ the duIlest season Of the year, the three
months Just passed, the freight receipts
at Osborne station, Missouri Pacific 4.
R., have aggregated shout $4,000.